Jialan Continent, somewhere on the west coast.

The floating giant ship flew slowly above the clouds in the sky at a very low speed.

Several wizards belonging to the Crimson family paced onto the deck, leaning on the side of the ship, silently looking down at the magical continent looming beneath them.

With their strength, coupled with the blessing of the Eagle Eye Technique, they can easily penetrate the thin layer of clouds and directly observe the strange natural landscape and a wide variety of jungle creatures in the Jialan Continent.

It's just a pity that the elves they want to find in this line of work are not as easy as finding humans. Humans like to cut down trees near settlements to make way for tall and sturdy camps and buildings. Therefore, at night, as long as you climb the heights and look at them, you can naturally find human villages and towns by following the lights that are lit.

But the elves are known as the race closest to nature and the most forest-loving, and they almost never cut down trees, but naturally place their villages and towns on those particularly tall and thick ancient trees.

The treehouse is the dwelling where the elves live.

After nightfall, the elves rarely light open fires, and since they live in the deep mountains and dense forests, it is difficult to find them with candles.

And like Grim, flying high in the blue sky, looking far away, the eyes are full of lush green, and the undulating forest sea is more difficult to find a trace of variegation. In this case, it would be a fool's dream to find an elven village with the naked eye alone.

Therefore, when you get here, if you want to find the elves, you can only honestly go into the forest, learn to jump high and low like the elves, and look for a needle in the reckless forest sea!

"Tymo, you might be able to identify the terrain here?Before starting a war with the Elven Court, I want to be able to hide this floating giant ship first, can you recommend a place?" asked Grim as he glanced briefly at the green forest and asked the half-elf guide.

Of course, Grim couldn't have fully trusted this guy who joined halfway. While waiting for his answer, Grim also silently called up the topographic map of the Jialan Continent in his mind, comparing it with the long and broken coastline in front of him.

It seemed that it had been a long time since he had smelled the magical breath in the Magical Great Forest, and the half-elf Taimo suppressed his excitement and lay on the side of the floating giant ship to silently examine the forest sea below.

"If I'm not mistaken, here...... This is probably the White Cliff on the west coast to the south. The most obvious symbol here is the white cliff that stands high on the edge of the coast. ”

Following Tymo's point, Grim saw a touch of white on the edge of the cliff in the distance.

"This is the most complex sea and reef near the West Coast, and it is also the least suitable area for large sea vessels. So in this area, the probability of us encountering the Elven King's patrol will be extremely small. Taimo pointed in a certain direction of Lin Hai again: "Go in that direction from here, and you will find an elven village in about 7 days." Sorry, I'm talking about the time it takes to walk through the forest, as for this ride...... This big guy may only take half a day to reach ......"

"Elven village ......" Grim pondered for a moment and shook his head, "It is not appropriate for us to contact the elves too early at this time, but we need to find a suitable place to settle first. Tymo, are there any large metal veins or caves in this West Coast area?"

"Metal Mine Cave?" Taimo opened his mouth in surprise, "There seem to be a lot of them in the middle of the Magical Forest, but they can be ...... on the west coast"

The half-elf lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said uncertainly: "From here to the north, there is about a 16-day trip, and there seems to be a nezumi mine cave there, as for whether there are metal veins in it, I don't know!"

"Then go there first!" Grim gave the order on the spot.

Moments later, the giant ship re-ascended, dived into the clouds, and sped north along the coastline in the direction indicated by the half-elves.

When the behemoth-like floating giant ship completely disappeared, two elves dressed in green grass and vine weaving clothes emerged from the canopy of a tall ancient tree at the edge of the forest sea.

Two elves, a man and a woman, watched the metal monster disappear, their eyes still soaked with unconcealable horror.

"What are those? Are they the horrible monsters of the witches?" the elf's voice trembled, apparently not yet shaken off the horror she had just had.

"We don't care what it is, we have to get the news of the metal monster infestation back to the village as soon as possible. Maybe Grandpa Wenger can tell us the answer...... "The male elf made a decision on the spot.

"Well, let's go......"

In the blink of an eye, the two elves were submerged in the canopy behind them.

Strange to say, in a blink of an eye, their figures merged with the forest, making it difficult to track their tracks.

A day later, news of the presence of a terrifying metal monster spread to every elven village on the West Coast.

…………

Nezumi Mine Cave.

The 16-day itinerary in Tamo's mouth is on the floating giant ship, and it is only a day and a night.

If it hadn't taken four hours to locate the entrance to the mine, Grim and his party would have been able to get here much faster.

The Nezumi Mine, as the name suggests, is hidden in a dense forest, revealing only a black cave with a slope upwards, and a large Nezumi tribe lives in it.

The elves are a tribe of great importance to personal grooming and neatness, and it is difficult to kill them even if they are sent to work in the dark, damp mines that do not see the light of day all year round. So the forest elves made a deal with the nezumi in the mine, and the nezumi relied on handing over a certain amount of ore to the forest elves every year in exchange for the residency of the mine.

Therefore, in the nezumi mine, there is no half elf to be found, and all the people living in it are intelligent nezumi who are less than one meter tall, can walk upright like humans, and use various precision tools.

The emaciated bodies of these nezumi could not wear heavy armor stomachs, but they fastened a metal cap on their heads, and then lit a thick candle on it, and used this faint light to move freely in the dark and damp mines.

Nezumi miners are basically armed with shovel pickaxes, and some stronger nezumi warriors may also be equipped with 'powerful' weapons such as *, iron swords, and spears.

According to Tymo's description, Grim could judge that the most powerful nezumi leader in this group of nezumi was only a first-order strength, and the rest of the nezumi warriors and miners were either high-level apprentices or quasi-witch strength, and they were also the kind of junk who had no elemental power, only some little cunning and small schemes.

For such garbage, Grim did not bother to send a valuable wizard, so he only assigned a goblin technician with five marksman-type magic machines to break in.

Grim and the others found a slightly flatter place outside the mine and set up tables and chairs, and just drank two cups of hot tea, and the battle inside the mine was over.

Nearly 200 nezumi, including the Rat King, were swept away and smashed into a sieve by the metal projectiles of the magic machine. As for the metal crossbow arrows fired by the nezumi hiding in the dim tunnel, neither the strength nor the attack power was enough to deal with the thick metal shell outside the demonic machine's body.

Therefore, after the strength was completely crushed, the archer magic weapon easily slaughtered the entire nezumi race.

The goblin technician brought back four or five pieces of ore from the depths of the mine.

Grim picked up a piece of ore and shook it in his hand, and then held it up in front of him to examine it carefully.

"After testing, the ore is an ordinary ore, which contains 11% mineral components, and the rest are waste materials with no use value...... The mineral composition of the ore is estimated to be as follows:

"Luo Iron Ore 1.42% ......"

"Peridot 3.27% ......"

"Pyroxene 2.86%......"

“……”

"The proportion of metal components is less than XXX%, and there is no mining and smelting value......"

After a long list of ore compositions, the chip also gave the final evaluation results.

The grade of the nezumi mine in front of him is not high, and the most supply to the elves is also the low-level magic materials such as topaz, peridot, and agate. These things are of some value to the elves, but they are useless to Grim, who is eager to lay a foundation.

After inspecting several pieces of ore brought out by the goblin technician in succession, Grim waved his hand in disappointment, and all the crew re-boarded the floating ship, turning the bow of the ship and flying at high speed towards another mysterious mine in the distance.

To put it mildly, Grim has been desperate to find a suitable metal vein as soon as possible. Anyway, this is still the edge of the Magical Forest, and the army and strength that the Elven Kingdom can project are limited, which is not enough to deter their actions.

And in five or six days, the coalition of the Dark Witch and the Pale Witch will arrive at the Jialan Continent by boat. At that point, they will be more visible and easier to catch.

Presumably at that time, the elven kingdom would prefer to send an elite army to encircle and suppress them, rather than lead a group of elven armies to chase after the floating giant ship and eat fart.

Truth be told, with his ships and cannons, Grim has long since disdained the armies of the secular world. The only people who can make him scruple are those elemental users and terrifying elven powerhouses.

But now Grim is leading the floating giant ship to go around in circles on the edge of the Jialan Continent, and he has not made any moves to slaughter elves, and they have turned around from time to time and flew back to the vast sea. If Grim were to be replaced by the elven commander at this moment, I am afraid that he would not know how to deal with this inexplicable metal monster!